On 19 Oct, 13:35, (Richard Harrison) wrote:
Art wrote:

"THE LOAD IMPEDANCE IS NOT INFINITE!"

Relative to the impedance of a reasonable antenna. the impedance of the
atmosphere or the impedance of free-space is non-conductive.
When the signal following the conductive surface of an antenna reaches
its end of the conductive path, current reverses its direction of travel
of necessity.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Keep to the discussion at hand. The route to free space was discarded
but there is another route available which you choose to ignore,
Well not you since you just quote from books without personal
voutching.
So let us say Terman chose to ignore or his secretary screwed up.
Unless ofcourse you have dotted the I's and T,s for yourself
and can personally confirm the corectness of what you have quoted.
So pray tell me, what is the impedance of current flow on the inside
of a tube
or down the center of a solid conductor assuming there is no 10 foot
fence placed at the top end of a fractional wave length antenna.
We will leave the lights on for the current to see the inside of the
tube